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Rocheport, Missouri

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Katy Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65279. It stands on McGill Branch. The Survey maps it on the Rocheport quadrangle. 201 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 614 feet above sea level.

Rocheport within Boone County

On record in Rocheport

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Rocheport fell from 239 to 201 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010239
2020201-38 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

26 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Rocheport between 1999 and 2020, burning about 31 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Debris and open burning7
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
24 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresMissouri Department of Conservation251266-02732-08242020-1755
15 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation251263-02732-08152020-1050
15 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation251264-02732-08152020-1050
4 July 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreBig Muddy National Wildlife RefugeRAILROAD FIREWORKS
26 July 1999Smoking1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
14 June 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreBig Muddy National Wildlife RefugeI70 DITCH
11 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178946-02732-06112019-1315
6 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation176929-02732-05062018-1109

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Boone County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Rocheport: 6 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Columbia DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Boone County

Storms near this place

16 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rocheport in 16 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 6 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1995Thunderstorm WindRocheport$12,000A barn was demolished in the Rocheport area with debris spread out 200 yards wide. Several large trees, approaching three feet in diameter, were also snapped off from near Rocheport to west of Columbia. Reported by the Columbia Emergency Operations Center.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindRocheport$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees, causing Highway BB to be blocked near Rocheport.
August 2020Flash FloodRocheport-Up to three inches of rain fell in a short amount of time causing flash flooding. Numerous roads were flooded. About a foot and a half of water was over Paris Road near Brown Station Road.
June 2015Flash FloodRocheport-Up to four inches of rain fell in a short amount of time onto already saturated soils causing flash flooding. Numerous roads were flooded including East Small Lane, off of Highway VV north of Columbia.
July 2015Flash FloodRocheport-Up to three inches of rain fell onto already saturated soils causing flash flooding. Numerous roads were flooded including Providence Road and Rangeline Road.
April 2014Flash FloodRocheport-Up to four inches of rain fell in a short amount of time causing flash flooding. Several roads were closed due to water over the roadways in the south half of Boone County.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindRocheport-A storm spotters 60 mph wind gusts.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindRocheport-A large tree fell onto a mobile home, causing moderate damage. No injuries were reported.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindRocheport-The County Sheriff reported 1 to 1 1/2 foot diameter trees blown down in Rocheport.
June 2019HailRocheport-no account filed
April 2015HailRocheport-no account filed
March 2014HailRocheport-no account filed
May 2011HailRocheport-no account filed
June 2010FloodRocheport-no account filed
March 2006HailRocheport-no account filed
November 2005HailRocheport-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Boone County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Thralls Prairie (historical)2.3 miles15
Wilhite (historical)3.0 miles15
Lexington (historical)4.9 miles19
Midway6.1 miles22
Huntsdale6.8 miles22
Stapletown (historical)6.9 miles19
Woodlandville7.1 miles19
Everett (historical)7.7 miles19

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on RocheportAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2604677The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 725426. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.